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Brian VanDeMark is the author of Pandora’s Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb and Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War. He is the coauthor of the number one bestselling memoir of Robert McNamara, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. He teaches history at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

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Title American Sheikhs: Two Families, Four Generations, and the Story of America's Influence in the Middle East
Author Brian Vandemark
Binding Hardcover
Edition 1ST
Pages 252
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY
Date 2012-01-24
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
ISBN 9781616144760 / 1616144769
Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
Dimensions 9.18 x 6.32 x 0.57 in (23.32 x 16.05 x 1.45 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: Modern
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Higher Education
Library of Congress subjects American University of Beirut - History, American University of Beirut - Influence
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011037541
Dewey Decimal Code 378.569

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"A highly original contribution to our understanding of America’s troubling relationship with the Middle East. VanDeMark . . . tell[s] a multigenerational story about the founding and growing influence of the American University of Beirut (AUB) over the last one hundred fifty years. It is the story of a turbulent and complicated love affair between America’s earliest Christian missionaries and the Arab world. . . . VanDeMark has written a concise and highly accessible history of the American missionaries and their political and intellectual legacy."
Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author ofCrossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956–1978

"An enlightening history centered on the AUB and its influence in the Middle East. . . . Setting the university against the backdrop of . . . conflicts and political power struggles . . . VanDeMark’s closing chapters skillfully document post-9/11 anti-Americanism in the Middle East."
Publishers Weekly

"An excellent study of a neglected subject. It should be of interest to anyone concerned about US relations with the Middle East and the continuing difficulties we face in the region."
Robert Dallek, Presidential historian

"With the fastidious care of a historian and the passion of one who understands the significance of the AUB to the United States and the Middle East, VanDeMark tells the fascinating story of the intertwining history of the university and its founding families with America’s diplomatic and political involvement in the region. In a style that is both accessible and absorbing, he concisely traces the evolution of one hundred fifty years of history that is a prerequisite for understanding America’s challenges in the Arab world today and posits that the AUB can still offer, rather than impose, the best of American values."
Ann Kerr-Adams, Former student, teacher, and member of the Board of Trusteesof the American University of Beirut and author of Come with Me from Lebanon

Citations

Choice, 09/01/2012, Page 0
Publishers Weekly, 10/31/2011, Page 0
Reference and Research Bk News, 04/01/2012, Page 158

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Brian VanDeMark is the author of Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb and Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War. He is the coauthor of the number one bestselling memoir of Robert McNamara, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. He teaches history at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

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